I came here to say that the commenter on Facebook, Jacqualea Morrison Cooley is a repetitive, ignorant, asshole. She felt the need to repeat this 4 times in the FB responses. Obviously she is a clock and bomb expert. Call the cops!!! Also, he brought it to show and impress his teacher. Call the cops!!! “Jacqualea Morrison Cooley You will not believe it is a clock, if you see it. - #!
It was not made at school. - #2
It is totally against school’s Code of Conduct to bring anything such as this to school. #3”

Of course they are. The average American’s reaction to anything science-related is hardly distinguishable from that of a 15th century European’s, at this point. Ahmed is lucky he wasn’t burned at the stake.

So wait, were the cops investigating a “potential threat”? Were they “protecting the children”? Or were they dealing with something that they were investigating to see if it potentially could have been used as part of a bomb hoax (but never actually was)? Because if you have a “hoax bomb” device without the actual hoax, and which in no way was designed to look like a bomb, what you have is a harmless device, and a harmless device isn’t a potential threat and thus students don’t need protecting from it.

There was no evidence for a bomb. It was pure anti-intellectualism and public stupidity causing panic due to seeing something they didn’t immediately recognize as not a bomb. Freaking town full of morons.

It never was a bomb hoax. The only ones who thought it were shouldn’t ever have been paid attention to. As if nobody recognized two major characters from Adult Swim’s most popular show of all time.

“bombs sometimes have wires, batteries or circuitboards. This thing here has wires, batteries, and circuitboards. Wires, batteries and circuitboards are magic. Therefore it must be a bomb.”

Just like how if you weigh the same as a duck, you therefore are made of wood, float in water and are also a witch. Sufficient evidence of having turned some guy into a newt as well, even if he did get better.

You know, nice small-town people wouldn’t be in a constant panic about Muslims coming to turn them Muslim and blow them up, if Faux News wasn’t peddling that message constantly. Nothing drives up ratings like fear, and nothing drives voters like fear, and the right-wing media has become an absolute fear machine.

But it can’t work forever. Sooner or later, people are going to have to become desensitized to a new menacing imaginary threat every day, Obama the secret Muslim, the War on Christmas, whatever it is. Aren’t they? Remember we got tired of McCarthy after a decade or so.